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This book explores new models and future possibilities of
university governance in a Latin American context using management
and leadership theories. The dramatic changes and uncertainty
facing the world recently have forced us to reimagine the future of
education. Changes such as digitalization, the increasing number of
corporate universities, and the need for cost-effective educational
programs and services require universities to keep evolving while
ensuring that they maintain their essence as a critical social
asset. This book offers a new approach to managing and leading the
university, particularly by embracing the role and responsibility
of delivering quality educational programs and services, by being
innovative and flexible enough to make urgent decisions and act
upon them in a timely and appropriate manner. With its
contributions to management and the social sciences, this
interdisciplinary book will serve as a valuable resource to
researchers, administrators, and students alike.
The latest addition to the Media and Society Series, Meanings of
the Medium takes a new approach to the study of the past, present,
and future of television. Most of its authors are not media experts
but literary critics, philosophers, rhetoricians, and historians.
They use their unique skills to examine three interwoven themes:
the origin and meaning of American attitudes toward television, the
relationship between high art and television's popular art, and the
relationship between particular kinds of programs and the
audience's sensibilities. Stressing an aesthetic and historical
approach, the volume directs itself to the reasons why people watch
particular programs and what these patterns tell us about
ourselves. This volume is divided into three sections. First,
Television and Society stresses the dynamic relationship between a
particular genre and the sensibility of its audience. Television
Programming as Art traces the subtle connections between High
culture and examples of contemporary television programs. The
development of American attitudes toward television is documented
by media experts in the final section, Television and Its Critics.
This volume seeks to explore bureaucratic forms of administration
in the Third World and alternatives to them. A variety of
unconventional approaches are included and an argument is made for
gendered, ecological and spiritual views. The contributors deal
with issues of reform, indigenization, and desirable futures.
Overall perspectives are provided dealing with models of
development, non-governmental organizations, feminist critiques,
and ecological thinking, as well as chapters on world areas.
The European Union is constantly changing, both in the number of
countries it embraces and in policy areas where it plays a major
role. The new millennium has witnessed two major changes in the
EU's scope. On 1 May 2004, it enlarged to include ten new member
states; and the new European Constitution defines providing
citizens with an 'area of freedom, security and justice' as one of
its primary aims. This book is unique in analyzing the interplay of
the two spheres.
David Henderson and Terence Horgan set out a broad new approach to
epistemology, which they see as a mixed discipline, having both a
priori and empirical elements. They defend the roles of a priori
reflection and conceptual analysis in philosophy, but their
revisionary account of these philosophical methods allows them a
subtle but essential empirical dimension. They espouse a
dual-perspective position which they call iceberg epistemology,
respecting the important differences between epistemic processes
that are consciously accessible and those that are not. Reflecting
on epistemic justification, they introduce the notion of
transglobal reliability as the mark of the cognitive processes that
are suitable for humans. Which cognitive processes these are
depends on contingent facts about human cognitive capacities, and
these cannot be known a priori.
The advent of the internet and the availability of social media and
digital downloads have expanded the creation, distribution, and
consumption of Black cultural production as never before. At the
same time, a new generation of Black public intellectuals who speak
to the relationship between race, politics, and popular culture has
come into national prominence. The contributors to Are You
Entertained? address these trends to consider what culture and
blackness mean in the twenty-first century's digital consumer
economy. In this collection of essays, interviews, visual art, and
an artist statement the contributors examine a range of topics and
issues, from music, white consumerism, cartoons, and the rise of
Black Twitter to the NBA's dress code, dance, and Moonlight.
Analyzing the myriad ways in which people perform, avow,
politicize, own, and love blackness, this volume charts the
shifting debates in Black popular culture scholarship over the past
quarter century while offering new avenues for future scholarship.
Contributors. Takiyah Nur Amin, Patricia Hill Collins, Kelly Jo
Fulkerson-Dikuua, Simone C. Drake, Dwan K. Henderson, Imani Kai
Johnson, Ralina L. Joseph, David J. Leonard, Emily J. Lordi, Nina
Angela Mercer, Mark Anthony Neal, H. Ike Okafor-Newsum, Kinohi
Nishikawa, Eric Darnell Pritchard, Richard Schur, Tracy
Sharpley-Whiting, Vincent Stephens, Lisa B. Thompson, Sheneese
Thompson
The advent of the internet and the availability of social media and
digital downloads have expanded the creation, distribution, and
consumption of Black cultural production as never before. At the
same time, a new generation of Black public intellectuals who speak
to the relationship between race, politics, and popular culture has
come into national prominence. The contributors to Are You
Entertained? address these trends to consider what culture and
blackness mean in the twenty-first century's digital consumer
economy. In this collection of essays, interviews, visual art, and
an artist statement the contributors examine a range of topics and
issues, from music, white consumerism, cartoons, and the rise of
Black Twitter to the NBA's dress code, dance, and Moonlight.
Analyzing the myriad ways in which people perform, avow,
politicize, own, and love blackness, this volume charts the
shifting debates in Black popular culture scholarship over the past
quarter century while offering new avenues for future scholarship.
Contributors. Takiyah Nur Amin, Patricia Hill Collins, Kelly Jo
Fulkerson-Dikuua, Simone C. Drake, Dwan K. Henderson, Imani Kai
Johnson, Ralina L. Joseph, David J. Leonard, Emily J. Lordi, Nina
Angela Mercer, Mark Anthony Neal, H. Ike Okafor-Newsum, Kinohi
Nishikawa, Eric Darnell Pritchard, Richard Schur, Tracy
Sharpley-Whiting, Vincent Stephens, Lisa B. Thompson, Sheneese
Thompson
David Henderson and Terence Horgan set out a broad new approach to
epistemology, which they see as a mixed discipline, having both a
priori and empirical elements. They defend the roles of a priori
reflection and conceptual analysis in philosophy, but their
revisionary account of these philosophical methods allows them a
subtle but essential empirical dimension. They espouse a
dual-perspective position which they call iceberg epistemology,
respecting the important differences between epistemic processes
that are consciously accessible and those that are not. Reflecting
on epistemic justification, they introduce the notion of
transglobal reliability as the mark of the cognitive processes that
are suitable for humans. Which cognitive processes these are
depends on contingent facts about human cognitive capacities, and
these cannot be known a priori.
In their pursuit of emotional extremes, writers of the Romantic
period were fascinated by experiences of pain and misery, and
explored the ability to derive pleasure, and produce creative
energy, out of masochism and submission. These interests were
closely connected to the failure of the industrial and democratic
revolutions to fulfil their promise of increased economic and
political power for everyone. Writers as different as Frances
Burney, William Hazlitt, John Keats, and Lord Byron both challenged
and came to terms with the injustices of modern life through their
representations of submission. In this book, Andrea K. Henderson
teases out these configurations and analyses the many ways ideas of
mastery and subjection shaped Romantic artistic forms, from
literature and art to architecture and garden design. This
provocative and ambitious study ranges widely through early
nineteenth-century culture to reveal the underlying power relations
that shaped Romanticism.
This volume seeks to explore bureaucratic forms of administration
in the Third World and alternatives to them. Experts with wide
experience in development are assembled to deal with issues of
reform, indigenization, and desirable futures.
On of the defining features of Romantic writing, critics have long
argued, is its characterization of the self in terms of
psychological depth. Many Romantic writers, however, did not
conceive of the self in this way, and in Romantic Identities Andrea
K. Henderson investigates that part of Romantic writing that
challenges the "depth" model, or operates outside its domain.
Henderson explores various forms of Romantic discourse, explains
their economic and social contexts, and examines their differing
conceptions of identity. Individual chapters treat the Romantic
view of the self in embryo and at birth, the relation of gothic
characterization to the ghostliness of exchange value,
anti-essentialism in Romantic physiology, the conception of self as
genre in writings by Percy and Mary Shelley, and the link between
economic circulation and the distrust of psychological interiority
in Scott.
This book explores new models and future possibilities of
university governance in a Latin American context using management
and leadership theories. The dramatic changes and uncertainty
facing the world recently have forced us to reimagine the future of
education. Changes such as digitalization, the increasing number of
corporate universities, and the need for cost-effective educational
programs and services require universities to keep evolving while
ensuring that they maintain their essence as a critical social
asset. This book offers a new approach to managing and leading the
university, particularly by embracing the role and responsibility
of delivering quality educational programs and services, by being
innovative and flexible enough to make urgent decisions and act
upon them in a timely and appropriate manner. With its
contributions to management and the social sciences, this
interdisciplinary book will serve as a valuable resource to
researchers, administrators, and students alike.
Epistemic Evaluation aims to explore and apply a particular
methodology in epistemology. The methodology is to consider the
point(s) or purpose(s) of our epistemic evaluations, and to pursue
epistemological theory in light of such matters. Call this
purposeful epistemology. The idea is that considerations about the
point and purpose of epistemic evaluation might fruitfully
constrain epistemological theory and yield insights for
epistemological reflection. Several contributions to this volume
explicitly address this general methodology, or some version of it.
Others focus on advancing some application of the methodology
rather than on theorizing about it. The papers go on to explore the
idea that purposes allow one to understand the conceptual demands
on knowing, examine how purposeful epistemology might shed light on
the debate between internalist and externalist epistemologies, and
further develop the idea of purposeful epistemology.
In their pursuit of emotional extremes, writers of the Romantic
period were fascinated by experiences of pain and misery, and
explored the ability to derive pleasure, and produce creative
energy, out of masochism and submission. These interests were
closely connected to the failure of the industrial and democratic
revolutions to fulfil their promise of increased economic and
political power for everyone. Writers as different as Frances
Burney, William Hazlitt, John Keats, and Lord Byron both challenged
and came to terms with the injustices of modern life through their
representations of submission. In this book, Andrea K. Henderson
teases out these configurations and analyses the many ways ideas of
mastery and subjection shaped Romantic artistic forms, from
literature and art to architecture and garden design. This
provocative and ambitious study ranges widely through early
nineteenth-century culture to reveal the underlying power relations
that shaped Romanticism.
On of the defining features of Romantic writing, critics have long
argued, is its characterization of the self in terms of
psychological depth. Many Romantic writers, however, did not
conceive of the self in this way, and in Romantic Identities Andrea
K. Henderson investigates that part of Romantic writing that
challenges the "depth" model, or operates outside its domain.
Henderson explores various forms of Romantic discourse, explains
their economic and social contexts, and examines their differing
conceptions of identity. Individual chapters treat the Romantic
view of the self in embryo and at birth, the relation of gothic
characterization to the ghostliness of exchange value,
anti-essentialism in Romantic physiology, the conception of self as
genre in writings by Percy and Mary Shelley, and the link between
economic circulation and the distrust of psychological interiority
in Scott.
The European Union is constantly changing, both in the number of
countries it embraces and in policy areas where it plays a major
role. The new millennium has witnessed two major changes in the
EU's scope. On 1 May 2004, it enlarged to include ten new member
states; and the new European Constitution defines providing
citizens with an 'area of freedom, security and justice' as one of
its primary aims. This book is unique in analyzing the interplay of
the two spheres.
That Indonesia's ongoing occupation of West Papua continues to be
largely ignored by world governments is one of the great moral and
political failures of our time. West Papuans have struggled for
more than fifty years to find a way through the long night of
Indonesian colonization. However, united in their pursuit of
merdeka (freedom) in its many forms, what holds West Papuans
together is greater than what divides them. Today, the Morning Star
glimmers on the horizon, the supreme symbol of merdeka and a
cherished sign of hope for the imminent arrival of peace and
justice to West Papua. Morning Star Rising: The Politics of
Decolonization in West Papua is an ethnographically framed account
of the long, bitter fight for freedom that challenges the dominant
international narrative that West Papuans' quest for political
independence is fractured and futile. Camellia Webb-Gannon's
extensive interviews with the decolonization movement's original
architects and its more recent champions shed light on complex
diasporic and intergenerational politics as well as social and
cultural resurgence. In foregrounding West Papuans' perspectives,
the author shows that it is the body politic's unflagging
determination and hope, rather than military might or influential
allies, that form the movement's most unifying and powerful force
for independence. This book examines the many intertwining strands
of decolonization in Melanesia. Differences in cultural performance
and political diversity throughout the region are generating new,
fruitful trajectories. Simultaneously, Black and Indigenous
solidarity and a shared Melanesian identity have forged a
transnational grassroots power-base from which the movement is
gaining momentum. Relevant beyond its West Papua focus, this book
is essential reading for those interested in Pacific studies,
Native and Indigenous studies, development studies, activism, and
decolonization.
Food Fight is set in a 1991 Congressional hearing to evaluate the
work of the USDA in developing the Food Pyramid. This document
angered various interest groups in agribusiness and some
nutritional experts. This game is intended for use in popular food
and nutrition general education science courses and introductory
chemistry and biology courses.
Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian
account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces
that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The nineteenth
century was a moment of extraordinary mathematical innovation,
witnessing the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the
revaluation of symbolic algebra, and the importation of
mathematical language into philosophy. All these innovations sprang
from a reconception of mathematics as a formal rather than a
referential practice-as a means for describing relationships rather
than quantities. For Victorian mathematicians, the value of a claim
lay not in its capacity to describe the world but its internal
coherence. This concern with formal structure produced a striking
convergence between mathematics and aesthetics: geometers wrote
fables, logicians reconceived symbolism, and physicists described
reality as consisting of beautiful patterns. Artists, meanwhile,
drawing upon the cultural prestige of mathematics, conceived their
work as a 'science' of form, whether as lines in a painting,
twinned characters in a novel, or wavelike stress patterns in a
poem. Avant-garde photographs and paintings, fantastical novels
like Flatland and Lewis Carroll's children's books, and
experimental poetry by Swinburne, Rossetti, and Patmore created
worlds governed by a rigorous internal logic even as they were
pointedly unconcerned with reference or realist protocols.
Algebraic Art shows that works we tend to regard as outliers to
mainstream Victorian culture were expressions of a mathematical
formalism that was central to Victorian knowledge production and
that continues to shape our understanding of the significance of
form.
This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.
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